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[HotTSt  ok  Representatives.  No.  278. 1 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  December  13,  18G4.— Read 
first  and  second  times,  placed  on  the  Calendar  and  ordered  to  be 
printed. 

[By  Mr.  Botce,  from  Committee  on  Xaval  Affairs.  | 


A     BILL 

To  increase  the  oember of  aeting  midshipmen   in  the  t>avy,  and  to 
»cribe  the  manner  of  appointment 

1  SECTION  1.       1  m(  the  C«nj 'et 'erate  Stairs  of  America 

2  do  enact.  That  the  number  of  acting  midshipmen  in  the  navy 

3  shall    be  increi  land    fifty,  who  shall   be  ap- 

4  pointed,  rahject  to  the  rulea  and  regulations  for  the  government 

5  of  the  naval  school,  a  ra:    One  from  each  Congressional 

6  district,  upon   t:.':  nomination  of  the  representative  thereof  in 

7  Cong        .  two  al  1        each  Stab    npon  the   nomination 

*  there*  b  remaining  eighteea 

9     by  the  Pree 


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